It was recently brought to my attention that there are people in our liberated nation that feel that women’s suffrage should be repealed. Unfortunately, because I was shocked, there are people out there that think taking a step back is good idea. It came up in one of my classes and a discussion started on the issue. There were actually young women who agreed that women should not have the right to vote. Her reasons weren’t very clear, but she did not hide her opinion. I actually felt a little bad for her because in a classroom with a majority of women, she was out numbered. Here is the link to a broadcast on the topic:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/30/derbyshire-female-suffrage/
If it were 1921 or even 1930, I would maybe see where this gentleman could use the argument that it worked fine for so many years. However, women have had the right to vote for more than 100 years. It is ridiculous to take away that right now. The gentleman used the argument that women tend to vote left, which polls do show is the trend, however it is unjust to take away that right now.
To take away women’s suffrage opens a tremendous can of worms. Who is to say that next the vote won’t be taken away from the Hispanic, or the African American, or the Asian, or the homosexual. By confining the liberties of one group it creates a path to take this nation back to 1863 when the only people with power were the “rich, white guys.”
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Monday, June 1, 2009
General Motors Fabulous Representation of a Fabulous Government
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYz6M7uRVQY
After GM’s recent bankruptcy issue, they plan on releasing the above commercial on Wednesday to “settle” some of the country’s lack of trust in their business practices. The amount of political symbols and metaphors in this commercial do not only prove that the federal government now controls this company, it shows that they aren’t even trying to hide it. The United States government obviously does not see anything wrong with owning one of the largest companies in the world. I mean hey, they are the United States government so maybe they do know everything. After all, the United States “empire” does spread into just about every country in the world by expanding capitalism and dominating through military. How could a nation who has that much power ever be wrong? Maybe we should just ask China… or the chief financial officer of GM, Ray Young.
According to Young in an interview about filing chapter 11 he said it was “a once in a lifetime opportunity to get our balance sheet healthy.” In one of the widest known companies, it is odd that GM doesn’t already hold some of the top financial advisors in the country let alone world wide. According to www.companypay.com’s salary analysis of GM’s chief financial officer, in 2006, made approximately $1,162,500 with stock awards just under $2,000,000 with additional rewards of about another $2,000,000 making a total of about $5,000,000. Someone making $5,000,000 a year should be the best in the business and not someone who looks forward to someone else working on the spreadsheets. If Young’s salary was put into a unit that the everyday person could understand, like Jr. Cheeseburgers from Wendy’s, Young would be able to feed the entire city of Cincinnati at least twice. GM overspent their budget and until the company was forced to file bankruptcy. How much farther is Obama going to follow in their footsteps? Is the United States government going to be the next GM? Who is going to hold that debt? Where is this country going and how exactly do we change? It’s time that Obama stops the ridiculous spending (or buying) and starts putting the money into something that can actually help this country and not the few elite that already own it.
After GM’s recent bankruptcy issue, they plan on releasing the above commercial on Wednesday to “settle” some of the country’s lack of trust in their business practices. The amount of political symbols and metaphors in this commercial do not only prove that the federal government now controls this company, it shows that they aren’t even trying to hide it. The United States government obviously does not see anything wrong with owning one of the largest companies in the world. I mean hey, they are the United States government so maybe they do know everything. After all, the United States “empire” does spread into just about every country in the world by expanding capitalism and dominating through military. How could a nation who has that much power ever be wrong? Maybe we should just ask China… or the chief financial officer of GM, Ray Young.
According to Young in an interview about filing chapter 11 he said it was “a once in a lifetime opportunity to get our balance sheet healthy.” In one of the widest known companies, it is odd that GM doesn’t already hold some of the top financial advisors in the country let alone world wide. According to www.companypay.com’s salary analysis of GM’s chief financial officer, in 2006, made approximately $1,162,500 with stock awards just under $2,000,000 with additional rewards of about another $2,000,000 making a total of about $5,000,000. Someone making $5,000,000 a year should be the best in the business and not someone who looks forward to someone else working on the spreadsheets. If Young’s salary was put into a unit that the everyday person could understand, like Jr. Cheeseburgers from Wendy’s, Young would be able to feed the entire city of Cincinnati at least twice. GM overspent their budget and until the company was forced to file bankruptcy. How much farther is Obama going to follow in their footsteps? Is the United States government going to be the next GM? Who is going to hold that debt? Where is this country going and how exactly do we change? It’s time that Obama stops the ridiculous spending (or buying) and starts putting the money into something that can actually help this country and not the few elite that already own it.
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Obama's Farm
As a fan of literature and an avid anti-Obamanist, it wasn’t hard to see a similar path between his administration and that of Major, Snowball and - let’s not forget - Napoleon from George Orwell’s famous satire, Animal Farm. This satire portrays the Russian revolution and Stalin’s rise to power through the propaganda manipulation of ill-educated “animals.” In a similar way, Obama has promised to bring peace, unity and economic benefit in a time of recession when people are grasping for the slightest bit of hope.
Obama is not a savior to America. By granting him the power to “correct” our pitiful economy, we are handing over our country on a silver platter. Thomas Jefferson once said that a government big enough to give you everything is big enough to take it all away. By approving his bail out, the federal government now controls the auto industry and a large portion of our banking system. Obviously it didn’t bail anyone out since, at the very least, Chevrolet will be restructuring by the end of this week and banks are still raising interest rates. Obama’s hand is not just reaching into the economy cookie jar. He is pushing (very strongly) for added regulations on pollution, federal healthcare, education, defense, and every other bit of policy he can get his grubby little hands on.
For those of you who have not read Animal Farm, absolute power is not given overnight. It comes slowly with the removal of one freedom in exchange for a policy then another then another. If, during his campaign for president, Obama said “Democracy just isn’t working for us Americans. Sorry but we’re going to try socialism for a while” the people of America, at least I hope, would never have elected him. Why then are we just sitting back as he slowly turns our country, what was once a great and powerful nation, into a socialist government? An old friend used to say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will jump out before it is injured. But if you put a frog into a cool pot of water and slowly heat it up, the frog will not realize the temperature change until it is too late. Jump out of the pot America; it’s getting ready to boil!
To read Animal Farm, go to your local bookstore (it’s not expensive) or you can read it online at <http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100011.txt>. To read up more on the comparisons between Obama and Orwell’s novel check out this article by Kimberly Fletcher <http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=89182> .
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